Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-02-05
THE COLD AIR CURE.
Exposure to q Draft Recommended as
q Cure for Caaafrh.

DR.. Oswald. in the Herald of Health.
The benefits OF cool air are not universally ap-
preciated. A good many people are afraid of 1t,
especially at night, shutting themselves in close
bedrooms, where their systems are poisoned and
their constitutions gradually undermined by
breathing the bad air. And even hot or warm air
that is pure-air in room that has ventilation as
well as heats facilitating where breathed all
night.
The evidence that pulmonary complaints are
inevitably and exclusively caused by foul indoor
air, and cured by pure, especially by cold pure
outdoor air, can grow convincing to degree
almost affective to a philanthropist, who most
often feels like traveller seeing his companions
cropping IN the gloom OF a Subterranean labyrinth,
and refusing TO follow the clew that has led him
back 10 the sunshine Of the upper world. The
remedial influence OF fresh air Is so much increased
By low temperature that scolds" are in fact far
more durable In m1dw1nJer than in midsummer. l
was shot through the lungs in Mexico. and have
ever sidce been susceptible TO the contag1On OF a
''catarrh factory" as friend of mine calls the
u1ventilated schOo, rooms and meeting houses of
such man traps as would the pit OF a gas we'll
but in winter rS,, their infection in the as<ur.
ance that its influence can be cOunteracted by an
extra dose OF ice air. On returning from a
crowded lecture hall, Sitting sick roorn a stuffy
Omnibus &C., remove my bed TO the draft side OF
the house aud open a window to the fun extent of
It's mechanis taking care to go to sleep facing
the graft. have often awakened in the morning
with my head grizzied with hOar frost, but with
announced Its approach the night before.
COD Is an aniseptic ana powerful digestive
stinulant; and here record the prediction that
the ncSpitaiS OF the future will be ice-hOuSeS
Dyspepsia, cataTrh and feverS of ali kinds can be
frozen out OF the systemnOt by letting the patient
Sh1ver in a SNOW bank, but by giving him an extra
allowance OF warm bed clothing with the addi-
uonal luxury OF breathing ice-cOld air. which
under such circumstances becomes as preferable
To not lnlaSina as cod spring water to warm ditch
water have also found that the best brain
work can be done in a cold room. and that stove
heat has tendency TO Stultify like q narcotic
beverage. Warm wraps make fires tolerably dis
penSabe.
With regard to diet where it is limited to natural
1ood there Is no danger OF eating too much. Where
stimuiants and highiy-Seasoned foods are eaten iC
is a different matter. A man with natural anne
lite may eat his plain natural food without fear OF
oFerstepping the proper limits. But the man with
an unnatural appetite-the one who stimulates and
lives highs always overstepping them, and is
disgust from the CORY carcasses of q Slaughter
house; but who ever heard OF yOungster shud-
l 81 Sym ca can r nSney sa 1e or q, nest
KIND without paying the penalty in a feeling
OF the gastric distress, followed by more or
But the closest observation has never en-
aoied lae TO notice such symptoms as an
aIter-efleet OF an omelet or piece Of bread and
favorable time for repetion nor is the early morn
lug, When the energies OF the system should not
DC unduly monopolzed by the work OF digestion
heavy breakfast handicaps worker for the resi-
or the forenoon. OF all OF the wletched slaves of
coh'entioh ABUSES the most 10 he plted are those
who have TO bolt their dinner in q minimum OF
tIne and hasten back TO their drudgery, and OFTEN
10 temperature that must tempt them to barter
week OF their lives for one hour OF undisturbed
sleep. light breakfast and late dinner surpr1s-
lhgiy ease the burden OF the hottest working day
never take MONDAY lunch, and, in special ext
gencl;s, sort OF instinct has often prompted me
10 dispense with my regular breakfast, too and 90
TO work after chewing up fraction Of hard crust
or couple OF dried prunes.
Eary rising, carried to extremes. 1mpatrs the
Vitality. would as soon rob child OF it's food or
us clothing as TO deprive Ii OF sleep in the morn.
ing hours. when digestion Is finished and dreams
become sweet. For orphans, as know from expe-
rence, dreamland excursions are often for years
civilization.